Mr. Go, Asia’s First Digital Character, Arrives at SM Cinema this October

On October 2, catch the story of an unlikely friendship between a bat-swinging gorilla and its 15-year old trainer in the SM CinExclusive movie Mr. Go.

Wei Wei, an orphan, is pressured to pay his late grandfather’s debt by a loan shark. Because she has no money, she has no choice but to allow the greedy sports agent Sung to recruit her gorilla Ling Ling to join the Doosan team at the Korean Baseball League. Ling Ling, popularly known as Mr. Go, overcomes the team’s losing streak with his single-handed swings. Overwhelmed with Mr. Go’s success, Wei Wei and Sung neglect the gorilla’s knee injury. With Mr. Go’s worsening condition and the appearance of another baseball-playing gorilla, Mr. Go and Wei Wei’s special bond is put to the test.  

Mr. Go is Asia’s first computer-generated (CG) character. CG experts who worked closely with Peter Jackson, Ridley Scott, James Cameron and Martin Scorsese were consulted to create this character that expresses so much emotion.  To render subtle and dramatic expressions to Mr. Go, the team used the ‘facial motion capture’ technique where a real actor’s movements are recorded and used to animate the character.

The film is helmed by Kim Yong-hwa who directed the 2006 comedy film 200 Pounds of Beauty. Wei Wei is portrayed by Jiao Xu, who played the young Mulan in the 2009 Chinese film Mulan: Rise of a Warrior. Sung Dong-il, one of the most recognized faces in Korean cinema, joins the cast as the greedy sports agent whom the audience can’t really hate despite his villainous antics. Kim Taeyeon of the South Korean girl group Girl’s Generation lends her voice for the soundtrack of Mr. Go.

Mr. Go is distributed in in the Philippines by Reality Multimedia, Inc, a fully integrated production and media distribution company that released the movie Before Midnight and the 2014 Academy Award contender The Butler, which was also an SM CinExclusive film.

e-PLUS Tap-to-Pay cardholders get 50% discount on the ticket if they watch the film using their card.

About SM Cinema

SM Cinema, the country’s leading film distributor, takes pride in its 252 cinemas and 7 IMAX Theatres scattered in 46 branches across the country. All of these theaters are now digital—delivering crystal-clear images and powerful sound.

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